{"id":9737,"date":"2026-07-11T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9737"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:58:07","slug":"tiktok-kiss-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/07\/11\/tiktok-kiss-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Kiss Punishment (updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Updated: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/lifestyle-culture\/article\/3360159\/indonesias-sharia-frontier-21-lashes-tiktok-kiss-our-right\">SCMP, At Indonesia\u2019s sharia frontier, 21 lashes for a TikTok kiss \u2018is our right\u2019, 11 Jul 2026<\/a> &#8220;Footage of the punishment quickly went viral: an unmarried couple each receiving 21 lashes of the cane in\u00a0Indonesia\u2019s Aceh province after being accused of kissing in a car and live-streaming it on\u00a0TikTok.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/02\/young-indonesian-couple-publicly-caned-after-kissing-on-tiktok?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-5\">AP\/Guardian, Young Indonesian couple publicly caned after kissing on TikTok, 2 Jul 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;A young couple in Indonesia\u2019s conservative Aceh province have been publicly caned after a Sharia court convicted them of violating Islamic law by kissing during a TikTok livestream.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also see:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/article-15947047\/Woman-passes-caned-committing-obscenity-live-man-social-media-Indonesian-provinces-Sharia-law.html?ITO=applenews\">Olivia Allhusen, Daily Mail, Woman passes out as she becomes first to be caned for &#8216;live obscenity on social media&#8217; in Indonesia<\/a>, 2 Jul 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;\u201cAmnesty International Indonesia spokesman Haeril Halim said the punishment for the couple was &#8216;a horrifying act of discrimination&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;\u2018This shows that the Aceh Islamic Criminal Code (Qanun Jinayat) has expanded its reach to target peaceful expressions in the digital sphere with the caning of the young couple,&#8217; he said in a statement to AFP.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: SCMP, At Indonesia\u2019s sharia frontier, 21 lashes for a TikTok kiss \u2018is our right\u2019, 11 Jul 2026 &#8220;Footage of the punishment quickly went viral: an unmarried couple each receiving 21 lashes of the cane in\u00a0Indonesia\u2019s Aceh province after being accused of kissing in a car and live-streaming it on\u00a0TikTok.&#8221; AP\/Guardian, Young Indonesian couple publicly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,643,115,895,284,193],"tags":[239,1058,145],"class_list":["post-9737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-indonesia","category-indonesia-internet","category-prosecutions","category-relationships","category-tiktok-2","tag-indonesia","tag-indonesia-digital","tag-tiktok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9771,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9737\/revisions\/9771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}